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Article

Pseudo-Isotropic Centro-Affine Lorentzian Surfaces

by
Olivier Birembaux
LMI-Laboratoire de Mathématiques pour l’Ingénieur, Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, Campus du Mont Houy, CEDEX 9, 59313 Valenciennes, France
Mathematics 2020, 8(8), 1284; https://doi.org/10.3390/math8081284
Submission received: 15 July 2020 / Revised: 23 July 2020 / Accepted: 27 July 2020 / Published: 4 August 2020
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Riemannian Geometry of Submanifolds)

Abstract

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In this paper, we study centro-affine Lorentzian surfaces M 2 in 3 which have pseudo-isotropic or lightlike pseudo-isotropic difference tensor. We first show that M 2 is pseudo-isotropic if and only if the Tchebychev form T = 0 . In that case, M 2 is a an equi-affine sphere. Next, we will get a complete classification of centro-affine Lorentzian surfaces which are lightlike pseudo-isotropic but not pseudo-isotropic.

1. Introduction

The notion of isotropic submanifolds of a Riemannian manifold was first introduced by B. O’Neill [1] who studied submanifolds for which the second fundamental form is isotropic. This notion has recently be extended by Cabrerizo, Fernández and Gómez in [2] for pseudo-Riemannian manifolds. Such manifolds are called pseudo-isotropic. Pseudo-isotropic Lagrangian surfaces has been studied in [3]. This notion of isotropy can be extended to all bundle valued tensor fields T ˜ by saying that T ˜ is isotropic if and only if the value of g ( T ˜ ( V , , V ) , T ˜ ( V , , V ) ) is independent of the unit vector V. In the affine case, hypersurfaces with isotropic difference tensor K have been studied in [4,5,6].
In this paper, we study centro-affine Lorentzian surfaces M 2 in 3 . The basic notions of centro-affine geometry are recalled in Section 2. A remarkable fact about affine hypersurfaces is that we can both introduce an affine induced connection ∇ and a Levi–Civita connection ^ of the affine metric h. In general those two connections do not coincide. The geometry of the hypersurface is determined by the difference tensor K defined by K ( X , Y ) = X Y ^ X Y .
We say that M 2 is pseudo-istropic if for any point p and tangent vector V at p we have
h ( K ( V , V ) , K ( V , V ) ) = λ ( p ) h 2 ( V , V ) ,
where λ is a function on M 2 .
Since M 2 is equipped with a Lorentzian metric, we can consider lightlike, timelike and spacelike vectors. We say that M 2 is timelike (resp. spacelike) pseudo-isotropic if the Equation (1) is satisfied for any point p and any timelike (resp. spacelike) vector V at p. We say that M 2 is lightlike pseudo-isotropic if for any point p and lightlike vector V at p, K ( V , V ) is a lightlike vector.
Note that some results in ([2]) remain valid if we replace the second fundamental form by K. So the following conditions are equivalent
  • M 2 is pseudo-isotropic;
  • M 2 is timelike pseudo-isotropic;
  • M 2 is spacelike pseudo-isotropic.
We first show that
Theorem 1.
Let M 2 be a centro-affine Lorentzian surface in 3 . Then M 2 is pseudo-isotropic if and only if T ( X ) = 1 2 T r K X = 0 for all tangent vector field X.
Then, in Section 4, we prove the following theorem
Theorem 2.
Let M 2 be a centro-affine Lorentzian surface in 3 , which is lightlike pseudo-isotropic but not pseudo-isotropic. Then M 2 is locally congruent with one of the following immersions
1. 
F = ( C 1 exp ( v ) + C 2 exp ( v ) + C 3 ) exp ( u ) + C 1 exp ( v ) ;
2. 
F = ( C 1 exp ( v ) + C 2 ) exp ( u ) + C 3 exp ( v ) C 1 exp ( v ) 2 C 2 ;
3. 
F = C 1 ( 1 + 1 r 2 r ) exp ( 1 r 2 v ) + C 2 ( 1 1 r 2 r ) exp ( 1 r 2 v ) + C 3 r exp ( u ) + C 1 exp ( 1 r 2 v ) + C 2 exp ( 1 r 2 v ) + C 3 ;
4. 
F = ( C 1 C 2 r 2 1 r ( cos ( r 2 1 v ) + ( C 2 + C 1 r 2 1 r ) sin ( r 2 1 v ) + C 3 r ) exp ( u ) + C 1 cos ( r 2 1 v ) + C 2 sin ( r 2 1 v ) + C 3 ;
5. 
F = ( C 1 v 2 2 + ( C 2 C 1 ) v + ( C 3 C 2 ) ) exp ( u ) + C 1 v 2 2 + C 2 v + C 3 ;
6. 
F = ( C 1 ( 1 + r 2 1 r ) exp ( 1 + r 2 v ) C 2 ( 1 + r 2 + 1 r ) exp ( 1 + r 2 v ) C 3 r ) exp ( u ) + C 1 exp ( 1 + r 2 v ) + C 2 exp ( 1 + r 2 v ) + C 3 .
where C 1 = ( 1 , 0 , 0 ) , C 2 = ( 0 , 1 , 0 ) and C 3 = ( 0 , 0 , 1 ) and r is a strictly positive constant.

2. Preliminary

Here we first recall the basic notions of affine differentiable geometry and centro-affine hypersurfaces. For more details we refer to [7,8]. Let f : M n n + 1 be an immersion of a connected differentiable n-dimensional manifold into the affine space n + 1 equipped with its usual flat connection D and let ξ be an arbitrary local transversal vector field to f ( M n ) .
For any vector fields X , Y we have
D X f * ( Y ) = f * ( X Y ) + h ( X , Y ) ξ ,
D X ξ = f * ( S X ) .
where ∇ is a torsion-free connection of M n called the affine induced connection, h a non degenerate ( 0 , 2 ) -tensor field called the affine metric and S a (1-1)-tensor field called the affine shape operator.
The hypersurface M n is said to be a centro-affine hypersurface if the position vector is nowhere tangent to M n . Then f is a transversal field along itself. We can take ξ = f and the Equation (3) becomes D X ξ = f * ( X ) .
The following fundamental equations of Gauss and Codazzi are given by
R ( X , Y ) Z = h ( Y , Z ) X h ( X , Z ) Y ( Equation of Gauss ) ,
( h ) ( X , Y , Z ) = ( h ) ( Y , X , Z ) ( Equation of Codazzi for h ) .
where X, Y and Z are vector fields on M n .
We denote by ^ the Levi–Civita connection of the centro-affine metric h and by R ^ the curvature tensor of ^ . The difference tensor K is defined by
K ( X , Y ) = X Y ^ X Y ,
for vector fields X and Y on M n . We also write K X Y = K ( X , Y ) and K X = X ^ X . Thus, for each X, it follows that K X is a tensor of type ( 1 , 1 ) that maps Y to K ( X , Y ) . Since both ∇ and ^ have zero torsion, K is symmetric in X and Y
K ( X , Y ) = K ( Y , X ) .
From (5) it follows that h ( K ( X , Y ) , Z ) is symmetric in X, Y and Z.
On the other hand expressing the Gauss equation in terms of the Levi–Civita connection of the centro-affine metric, we deduce that
R ^ ( X , Y ) Z = K Y K X Z K X K Y Z + ( h ( Y , Z ) X h ( X , Z ) Y ) .
We also obtain a Codazzi equation for K
( ^ X K ) ( Y , Z ) = ( ^ Y K ) ( X , Z ) .
The Tchebychev form T is defined by
T ( X ) = 1 n t r a c e K X .

3. Equiaffine Sphere and Pseudo-Isotropy

Now we suppose that M 2 is a Lorentzian centro-affine pseudo-isotropic surface in 3 . The surface is equipped with an affine indefinite metric h. Since M 2 is pseudo-isotropic, as in the paper ([5]), by linearization of (1), we obtain at any point p on M 2
h ( K ( X , Y ) , K ( Z , V ) ) + h ( K ( X , Z ) , K ( V , Y ) ) + h ( K ( X , V ) , K ( Y , Z ) ) = λ ( p ) ( h ( X , Y ) h ( Z , V ) + h ( X , Z ) h ( V , Y ) + h ( X , V ) h ( Z , Y ) ) .
Let p M 2 , we say that { E 1 , E 2 } is a null frame at p if it satisfies h ( E i , E j ) = 1 δ i j , i , j { 1 , 2 } . From (1), we find immediately that h ( K ( E 1 , E 1 ) , K ( E 1 , E 1 ) ) = h ( K ( E 2 , E 2 ) , K ( E 2 , E 2 ) ) = 0 so K ( E 1 , E 1 ) and K ( E 2 , E 2 ) are lightlike vectors.
Using (9) with X = Y = Z = E 1 and V = E 2 (resp. X = Y = Z = E 2 and V = E 1 ), we get that K ( E 1 , E 2 ) is orthogonal to K ( E 1 , E 1 ) (resp. K ( E 2 , E 2 ) ).
We can write K ( E 1 , E 2 ) = α 1 E 1 + α 2 E 2 . Using the symmetry of h ( K ( X , Y ) , Z ) in X, Y and Z and the fact that { E 1 , E 2 } is a null frame, we prove that
K ( E 1 , E 1 ) = α 2 E 1 + α 3 E 2 , K ( E 2 , E 2 ) = α 4 E 1 + α 1 E 2 .
Since K ( E 1 , E 1 ) and K ( E 2 , E 2 ) are lightlike vectors, we obtain α 2 α 3 = 0 and α 1 α 4 = 0 . Using the fact that K ( E 1 , E 2 ) is orthogonal to K ( E 1 , E 1 ) and K ( E 2 , E 2 ) , we get
α 1 α 3 + α 2 2 = 0 , α 2 α 4 + α 1 2 = 0 .
Therefore, we have α 1 = α 2 = 0 so K E 1 = ( 0 0 α 3 0 ) and K E 2 = ( 0 α 4 0 0 ) . We have proved that T r K E 1 = T r K E 2 = 0 . For any vector X at a point p, we show that h ( K ( X , E 1 ) , E 1 ) = h ( K ( X , E 2 ) , E 2 ) = 0 so T r K X = 0 .
Conversely, suppose that M 2 is a Lorentzian centro-affine surface in 3 with T r K X = 0 . As before, we have
K ( E 1 , E 2 ) = α 1 E 1 + α 2 E 2 , K ( E 1 , E 1 ) = α 2 E 1 + α 3 E 2 , K ( E 2 , E 2 ) = α 4 E 1 + α 1 E 2 .
From T r K E 1 = T r K E 2 = 0 , we deduce that α 1 = α 2 = 0 .
Let X a vector at a point p, we can write X = β 1 E 1 + β 2 E 2 and computations give
h ( K ( X , X ) , K ( X , X ) ) = 2 β 1 2 β 2 2 α 3 α 4 , h ( X , X ) 2 = 4 β 1 2 β 2 2 .
So h ( K ( X , X ) , K ( X , X ) ) = α 3 α 4 2 h ( X , X ) 2 . Since h ( K ( X , X ) , K ( X , X ) ) and h ( X , X ) 2 are independent of the basis, it is the same for α 3 α 4 2 . Therefore M 2 is pseudo-isotropic. This completes the proof of Theorem 1.

4. Lightlike Pseudo-Isotropic Lorentzian Surfaces

Now we suppose that M 2 is proper lightlike pseudo-isotropic but not pseudo-isotropic. We say that M 2 is lightlike pseudo-isotropic of Type 1 at the point p if there exists a lightlike vector V such that K ( V , V ) and V are independent and of Type 2 if for every lightlike vector V, K ( V , V ) and V are dependent. The points of Type 1 form an open set U 1 of M 2 and the points of Type 2 a closed set U 2 . It is clear that the null frame { E 1 , E 2 } can be extended differentially to a neighborhood of a point p belonging either to U 1 or the interior of U 2 . Given the structure of surfaces of this section, it follows that the classification theorem remain valid on the whole of M 2 .
Lemma 1.
There are no lightlike pseudo-isotropic surfaces of Type 1.
Proof. 
We consider a null frame in a neighborhood of p constructed as before. We take E 1 the lightlike vector such that K ( E 1 , E 1 ) and E 1 are independent. Then K ( E 1 , E 1 ) is a multiple of E 2 and we can choose the frame such that K ( E 1 , E 1 ) = E 2 . We write K ( E 2 , E 2 ) = β E 1 + α E 2 . Using the symmetry of h ( K ( X , Y ) , Z ) and the fact that { E 1 , E 2 } is a null frame, we get K ( E 1 , E 2 ) = α E 1 . As E 2 is lightlike, we must have that K ( E 2 , E 2 ) is also lightlike and we obtain α β = 0 . From T r K E 1 0 , we get α 0 so β = 0 . Therefore, we have
K ( E 1 , E 1 ) = E 2 , K ( E 1 , E 2 ) = α E 1 , K ( E 2 , E 2 ) = α E 2 .
As ^ is the Levi–Civita connection, we have X . h ( Y , Z ) = h ( ^ X Y , Z ) + h ( Y , ^ X Z ) for all vector fields on M 2 . Using the previous expression with X = Y = Z = E 1 and X = Y = Z = E 2 , we prove that ^ E 1 E 1 = γ E 1 and ^ E 2 E 2 = δ E 2 where γ and δ are functions. Using the same expression, by replacing X , Y , Z with E 1 or E 2 , we get ^ E 1 E 2 = γ E 2 and ^ E 2 E 1 = δ E 1 . We have
^ K ( E 2 , E 1 , E 1 ) = ^ E 2 K ( E 1 , E 1 ) 2 K ( ^ E 2 E 1 , E 1 ) = ^ E 2 E 2 2 K ( δ E 1 , E 1 ) = δ E 2 + 2 δ E 2 = 3 δ E 2 ,
^ K ( E 1 , E 2 , E 1 ) = ^ E 1 K ( E 2 , E 1 ) K ( ^ E 1 E 2 , E 1 ) K ( E 2 , ^ E 1 E 1 ) = ^ E 1 ( α E 1 ) K ( γ E 2 , E 1 ) K ( γ E 1 , E 2 ) = ( E 1 ( α ) + α γ ) E 1 ,
^ K ( E 1 , E 2 , E 2 ) = ^ E 1 K ( E 2 , E 2 ) 2 K ( ^ E 1 E 2 , E 2 ) = ^ E 1 ( α E 2 ) 2 K ( γ E 2 , E 2 ) = ( E 1 ( α ) + α γ ) E 2 ,
^ K ( E 2 , E 1 , E 2 ) = ^ E 2 K ( E 1 , E 2 ) K ( ^ E 2 E 1 , E 2 ) K ( E 1 , ^ E 2 E 2 ) = ^ E 2 ( α E 1 ) K ( δ E 1 , E 2 ) K ( E 1 , δ E 2 ) = ( E 2 ( α ) α δ ) E 1 .
So computations give
^ K ( E 2 , E 1 , E 1 ) = 3 δ E 2 , ^ K ( E 1 , E 2 , E 1 ) = ( E 1 ( α ) + α γ ) E 1 , ^ K ( E 1 , E 2 , E 2 ) = ( E 1 ( α ) + α γ ) E 2 , ^ K ( E 2 , E 1 , E 2 ) = ( E 2 ( α ) α δ ) E 1 .
Then, from the Codazzi equation (8), we find that δ = 0 and we see that α satisfies the following system of differential equations E 1 ( α ) = α γ and E 2 ( α ) = 0 .
If we compute [ E 1 , E 2 ] ( α ) in two different ways, we have
[ E 1 , E 2 ] ( α ) = E 1 ( E 2 ( α ) ) E 2 ( E 1 ( α ) ) = 0 E 2 ( α γ ) = α E 2 ( γ ) ,
and
[ E 1 , E 2 ] ( α ) = ( ^ E 1 E 2 ^ E 2 E 1 ) ( α ) = γ E 2 ( α ) = 0 .
Therefore E 2 ( γ ) = 0 .
It is well known that R ^ ( X , Y ) Z = ^ X ^ Y Z ^ Y ^ X Z ^ [ X , Y ] Z , so
R ^ ( E 1 , E 2 ) E 1 = 0 ^ E 2 ^ E 1 E 1 ^ ( ^ E 1 E 2 0 ) E 1 = ^ E 2 ( γ E 1 ) ^ ( γ E 2 ) E 1 = E 2 ( γ ) E 1 = 0 .
From (7), we get
R ^ ( E 1 , E 2 ) E 1 = K E 2 K E 1 E 1 K E 1 K E 2 E 1 + ( h ( E 2 , E 1 ) E 1 0 ) = K E 2 E 2 K E 1 ( α E 1 ) + E 1 = α E 2 α E 2 + E 1 = E 1 .
Hence, we obtain a contradiction. □
Now we deal with lightlike pseudo-isotropic surface of Type 2. We can choose a null frame such that K ( E 1 , E 1 ) = E 1 and K ( E 2 , E 2 ) = α E 2 . The symmetry of h ( K ( X , Y ) , Z ) gives K ( E 1 , E 2 ) = α E 1 + E 2 . As before, we have ^ E 1 E 1 = γ E 1 , ^ E 2 E 2 = δ E 2 , ^ E 1 E 2 = γ E 2 and ^ E 2 E 1 = δ E 1 where γ and δ are functions.
Lemma 2.
We have γ = 0 and the functions α and δ satisfy the following system of differential equations
E 1 ( α ) = δ , E 2 ( α ) = δ α , E 1 ( δ ) = α 1 , E 2 ( δ ) = α ( α 1 ) .
Proof. 
We find
^ K ( E 2 , E 1 , E 1 ) = ^ E 2 K ( E 1 , E 1 ) 2 K ( ^ E 2 E 1 , E 1 ) = ^ E 2 E 1 2 K ( δ E 1 , E 1 ) = δ E 1 + 2 δ E 1 = δ E 1 ,
^ K ( E 1 , E 2 , E 1 ) = ^ E 1 K ( E 2 , E 1 ) K ( ^ E 1 E 2 , E 1 ) K ( E 2 , ^ E 1 E 1 ) = ^ E 1 ( α E 1 + E 2 ) K ( γ E 2 , E 1 ) K ( γ E 1 , E 2 ) = ( E 1 ( α ) + α γ ) E 1 γ E 2 ,
^ K ( E 1 , E 2 , E 2 ) = ^ E 1 K ( E 2 , E 2 ) 2 K ( ^ E 1 E 2 , E 2 ) = ^ E 1 ( α E 2 ) 2 K ( γ E 2 , E 2 ) = ( E 1 ( α ) + α γ ) E 2 ,
^ K ( E 2 , E 1 , E 2 ) = ^ E 2 K ( E 1 , E 2 ) K ( ^ E 2 E 1 , E 2 ) K ( E 1 , ^ E 2 E 2 ) = ^ E 2 ( α E 1 + E 2 ) K ( δ E 1 , E 2 ) K ( E 1 , δ E 2 ) = ( E 2 ( α ) α δ ) E 1 + δ E 2 .
So computations give
^ K ( E 2 , E 1 , E 1 ) = δ E 1 , ^ K ( E 1 , E 2 , E 1 ) = ( E 1 ( α ) + α γ ) E 1 γ E 2 , ^ K ( E 1 , E 2 , E 2 ) = ( E 1 ( α ) + α γ ) E 2 , ^ K ( E 2 , E 1 , E 2 ) = ( E 2 ( α ) α δ ) E 1 + δ E 2 .
Then, from the Codazzi equation (8), we get γ = 0 and we see that α satisfies the following system of differential equations E 1 ( α ) = δ and E 2 ( α ) = δ α .
If we compute [ E 1 , E 2 ] ( α ) in two different ways, we have
[ E 1 , E 2 ] ( α ) = E 1 ( δ α ) E 2 ( δ ) = E 1 ( δ ) α + δ 2 E 2 ( δ ) ,
and
[ E 1 , E 2 ] ( α ) = ^ E 2 E 1 ( α ) = δ E 1 ( α ) = δ 2 .
Therefore E 2 ( δ ) = α E 1 ( δ ) .
From R ^ ( X , Y ) Z = ^ X ^ Y Z ^ Y ^ X Z ^ [ X , Y ] Z , we get
R ^ ( E 1 , E 2 ) E 1 = ^ E 1 ^ E 2 E 1 0 ^ ( 0 ^ E 2 E 1 ) E 1 = ^ E 1 ( δ E 1 ) + ^ ( δ E 1 ) E 1 = E 1 ( δ ) E 1 .
From (7), we get
R ^ ( E 1 , E 2 ) E 1 = K E 2 K E 1 E 1 K E 1 K E 2 E 1 + ( h ( E 2 , E 1 ) E 1 0 ) = K E 2 ( E 1 ) K E 1 ( α E 1 + E 2 ) + E 1 = α E 1 + E 2 α E 1 ( α E 1 + E 2 ) + E 1 = ( 1 α ) E 1 .
Therefore E 1 ( δ ) = α 1 and E 2 ( δ ) = α ( α 1 ) . □
It is easy to check that E 1 ( ( α 1 ) 2 δ 2 ) = E 2 ( ( α 1 ) 2 δ 2 ) = 0 . Therefore, we have the
Corollary 1.
There exist a constant c { 1 , 0 , 1 } and a non negative constant r such that
c r 2 = ( α 1 ) 2 δ 2 .
Lemma 3.
There exist local coordinates u and v such that
u = E 1 , v = E 2 α E 1 .
Proof. 
If we define vector fields U and V by U = E 1 and V = E 2 α E 1 , we obtain
[ U , V ] = [ E 1 , E 2 α E 1 ] = ^ E 1 E 2 ^ E 2 E 1 + ^ E 1 ( α E 1 ) ^ ( α E 1 ) E 1 = 0 + δ E 1 E 1 ( α ) E 1 0 = 0 .
It is easy to check that the previous systems of differential equations in terms of the coordinates u , v reduce to
u ( α ) = δ , v ( α ) = 0 , u ( δ ) = α 1 , v ( δ ) = 0 .
If we denote the immersion of M 2 in 3 by F , using (2), we get
F u u = D u d F ( u ) = d F ( ˜ u u ) + d F ( K ( u , u ) ) h ( u , u ) F , F u v = D u d F ( v ) = d F ( ˜ u v ) + d F ( K ( u , v ) ) h ( u , v ) F , F v v = D v d F ( v ) = d F ( ˜ v v ) + d F ( K ( v , v ) ) h ( v , v ) F .
We have the
Lemma 4.
The immersion F is determined by the following system of differential equations
F u u = F u , F u v = ( α δ ) F u + F v F , F v v = 2 α ( δ α ) F u + ( δ α ) F v + 2 α F .
Proof. 
Recall that ^ E 1 E 1 = ^ E 1 E 2 = 0 , ^ E 2 E 2 = δ E 2 and ^ E 2 E 1 = δ E 1 .
We find
F u u = 0 + d F ( E 1 ) 0 = F u ,
F u v = d F ( ˜ E 1 ( E 2 α E 1 ) ) + d F ( K ( E 1 , E 2 α E 1 ) ) h ( E 1 , E 2 α E 1 ) F = E 1 ( α ) d F ( E 1 ) + d F ( α E 1 + E 2 α E 1 ) F = δ F u + α F u + F v F ,
and
F v v = d F ( ˜ E 2 ( E 2 α E 1 ) ) α d F ( ˜ E 1 ( E 2 α E 1 ) ) + d F ( K ( E 2 , E 2 ) 2 α K ( E 1 , E 2 ) + α 2 K ( E 1 , E 1 ) ) + 2 α F = δ d F ( E 2 ) E 2 ( α ) d F ( E 1 ) + α δ d F ( E 1 ) + α E 1 ( α ) d F ( E 1 ) + d F ( α E 2 2 α ( α E 1 + E 2 ) + α 2 E 1 ) + 2 α F = δ F v + 2 α δ F u + d F ( α E 2 + α 2 E 1 2 α 2 E 1 ) + 2 α F = δ F v + 2 α δ F u α F v 2 α 2 F u + 2 α F = 2 α ( δ α ) F u + ( δ α ) F v + 2 α F .
From the first equation, in all cases, we deduce that there exist vector valued functions a 1 and a 2 such that F ( u , v ) = a 1 ( v ) exp ( u ) + a 2 ( v ) .

4.1. Case c = 0

Using the Corollary 1 and the derivatives of α and δ in the direction of u and v, we get δ = exp ( u ) and α = exp ( u ) + 1 or δ = exp ( u ) and α = exp ( u ) + 1 .

4.1.1. Case δ = exp ( u ) and α = exp ( u ) + 1

The equations of the Lemma 4 become
F u u = F u , F u v = F u + F v F , F v v = 2 ( exp ( u ) + 1 ) F u F v + 2 ( exp ( u ) + 1 ) F .
We write F ( u , v ) = a 1 ( v ) exp ( u ) + a 2 ( v ) .
The second equation gives a 1 ( v ) exp ( u ) = a 1 ( v ) exp ( u ) + a 1 ( v ) exp ( u ) + a 2 ( v ) a 1 ( v ) exp ( u ) a 2 ( v ) so
a 2 ( v ) = a 2 ( v ) .
Then there exists a constant vector C 1 such that a 2 ( v ) = C 1 exp ( v ) .
The third equation gives
a 1 exp ( u ) a 2 ( v ) = 2 ( exp ( u ) + 1 ) a 1 ( v ) exp ( u ) a 1 ( v ) exp ( u ) a 2 ( v ) + 2 ( exp ( u ) + 1 ) a 1 ( v ) exp ( u ) + 2 exp ( u ) a 2 ( v ) + 2 a 2 ( v ) .
So a 1 ( v ) exp ( u ) = a 1 ( v ) exp ( u ) + 2 a 2 ( v ) exp ( u ) and finally we get
a 1 ( v ) = a 1 ( v ) + 2 a 2 ( v ) .
Then there exist constants vectors C, C 2 and C 3 such that a 1 = C exp ( v ) + C 2 exp ( v ) + C 3 and using the previous equation, we get C = C 1 .
We can use an affine transformation which maps the basis C 1 , C 2 , C 3 to the standard basis. Then
F = ( C 1 exp ( v ) + C 2 exp ( v ) + C 3 ) exp ( u ) + C 1 exp ( v )
where C 1 = ( 1 , 0 , 0 ) , C 2 = ( 0 , 1 , 0 ) and C 3 = ( 0 , 0 , 1 ) .

4.1.2. Case δ = exp ( u ) and α = exp ( u ) + 1

The equations of the Lemma 4 become
F u u = F u , F u v = ( 2 exp ( u ) + 1 ) F u + F v F , F v v = 2 ( 1 exp ( u ) ) ( 2 exp ( u ) 1 ) F u + ( 2 exp ( u ) 1 ) F v + 2 ( 1 exp ( u ) ) F .
As in the previous case, we write F ( u , v ) = a 1 ( v ) exp ( u ) + a 2 ( v ) . The second equation gives
a 2 ( v ) = a 2 ( v ) + 2 a 1 ( v ) .
Furthermore, after straightforward computations, we find that the third equation reduces to
a 1 ( v ) = a 1 ( v ) .
So there exist constant vectors C 1 and C 2 such that a 1 ( v ) = C 1 exp ( v ) + C 2 .
Moreover, there exist constant vectors C 3 , C 4 and C 5 such that a 2 ( v ) = C 3 exp ( v ) + C 4 exp ( v ) + C 5 and by using a 2 ( v ) = a 2 ( v ) + 2 a 1 ( v ) , we show that C 4 = C 1 and C 5 = 2 C 2
Then a 1 ( v ) = C 1 exp ( v ) + C 2 and a 2 ( v ) = C 3 exp ( v ) C 1 exp ( v ) 2 C 2 . By using an affine transformation which maps the basis C 1 , C 2 , C 3 to the standard basis, we have
F = ( C 1 exp ( v ) + C 2 ) exp ( u ) + C 3 exp ( v ) C 1 exp ( v ) 2 C 2
where C 1 = ( 1 , 0 , 0 ) , C 2 = ( 0 , 1 , 0 ) and C 3 = ( 0 , 0 , 1 ) .

4.2. Case c = 1

We can suppose that α 1 = r cosh ( u ) and δ = r sinh ( u ) . The equations of the Lemma 4 become
F u u = F u , F u v = ( r cosh ( u ) r sinh ( u ) + 1 ) F u + F v F , F v v = 2 ( r cosh ( u ) + 1 ) ( r sinh ( u ) r cosh ( u ) 1 ) F u + ( r sinh ( u ) r cosh ( u ) 1 ) F v + 2 ( r cosh ( u ) + 1 ) F .
We write F ( u , v ) = a 1 ( v ) exp ( u ) + a 2 ( v ) .
The second equation gives
a 2 ( v ) = a 2 ( v ) + r a 1 ( v ) .
Furthermore, after straightforward computations, we find that the third equation reduces to a 1 ( v ) exp ( u ) = a 1 ( v ) exp ( u ) + r a 2 ( v ) exp ( u ) . Therefore we get the relation
a 1 ( v ) = a 1 ( v ) + r a 2 ( v ) .
We have r a 1 ( v ) = a 2 ( v ) a 2 ( v ) and we derive two times. Since r 0 , we get r a 1 ( v ) = r a 1 ( v ) + r 2 a 2 ( v ) . Then computations give
a 2 ( 3 ) ( v ) = ( 1 r 2 ) a 2 ( v ) .

4.2.1. Case 1 r 2 > 0

Then there exist constants vectors C 1 , C 2 and C 3 such that
a 2 ( v ) = C 1 exp ( 1 r 2 v ) + C 2 exp ( 1 r 2 v ) + C 3
and using the relation a 2 ( v ) = a 2 ( v ) + r a 1 ( v ) , we get
a 1 ( v ) = C 1 1 + 1 r 2 r exp ( 1 r 2 v ) + C 2 1 1 r 2 r exp ( 1 r 2 v ) + C 3 r .
By using an affine transformation which maps the basis C 1 , C 2 , C 3 to the standard basis, we have
F = C 1 1 + 1 r 2 r exp ( 1 r 2 v ) + C 2 1 1 r 2 r exp ( 1 r 2 v ) + C 3 r exp ( u ) + C 1 exp ( 1 r 2 v ) + C 2 exp ( 1 r 2 v ) + C 3
where C 1 = ( 1 , 0 , 0 ) , C 2 = ( 0 , 1 , 0 ) and C 3 = ( 0 , 0 , 1 ) .

4.2.2. Case 1 r 2 < 0

Then there exist constants vectors C 1 , C 2 and C 3 such that
a 2 ( v ) = C 1 cos ( r 2 1 v ) + C 2 sin ( r 2 1 v ) + C 3
and using the relation a 2 ( v ) = a 2 ( v ) + r a 1 ( v ) , we get
a 1 ( v ) = C 1 C 2 r 2 1 r cos ( r 2 1 v ) + C 2 + C 1 r 2 1 r sin ( r 2 1 v ) + C 3 r .
By using an affine transformation which maps the basis C 1 , C 2 , C 3 to the standard basis, we have
F = C 1 C 2 r 2 1 r cos ( r 2 1 v ) + C 2 + C 1 r 2 1 r sin ( r 2 1 v ) + C 3 r exp ( u ) + C 1 cos ( r 2 1 v ) + C 2 sin ( r 2 1 v ) + C 3
where C 1 = ( 1 , 0 , 0 ) , C 2 = ( 0 , 1 , 0 ) and C 3 = ( 0 , 0 , 1 ) .

4.2.3. Case r = 1

We have a 2 ( 3 ) ( v ) = 0 . So there exist constant vectors C 1 , C 2 and C 3 such that
a 2 ( v ) = C 1 v 2 2 + C 2 v + C 3
and using the relation a 2 ( v ) = a 2 ( v ) + a 1 ( v ) , we get
a 1 ( v ) = C 1 v 2 2 + ( C 2 C 1 ) v + ( C 3 C 2 ) .
By using an affine transformation which maps the basis C 1 , C 2 , C 3 to the standard basis, we have
F = C 1 v 2 2 + ( C 2 C 1 ) v + ( C 3 C 2 ) exp ( u ) + C 1 v 2 2 + C 2 v + C 3
where C 1 = ( 1 , 0 , 0 ) , C 2 = ( 0 , 1 , 0 ) and C 3 = ( 0 , 0 , 1 ) .

4.3. Case c = −1

We can suppose that α 1 = r sinh ( u ) and δ = r cosh ( u ) . The equations of the Lemma 4 become
F u u = F u , F u v = ( r sinh ( u ) r cosh ( u ) + 1 ) F u + F v F , F v v = 2 ( r sinh ( u ) + 1 ) ( r cosh ( u ) r sinh ( u ) 1 ) F u + ( r cosh ( u ) r sinh ( u ) 1 ) F v + 2 ( r sinh ( u ) + 1 ) F .
As before, F ( u , v ) = a 1 ( v ) exp ( u ) + a 2 ( v ) .
The second equation gives
a 2 ( v ) = a 2 ( v ) r a 1 ( v ) .
Furthermore, after straightforward computations, we find that the third equation reduces to a 1 ( v ) exp ( u ) = a 1 ( v ) exp ( u ) + r a 2 ( v ) exp ( u ) . Therefore we get the relation
a 1 ( v ) = a 1 ( v ) + r a 2 ( v ) .
We have r a 1 ( v ) = a 2 ( v ) a 2 ( v ) and we derive two times. Since r 0 , we have r a 1 ( v ) = r a 1 ( v ) + r 2 a 2 ( v ) . Then computations give
a 2 ( 3 ) ( v ) = ( 1 + r 2 ) a 2 ( v ) .
Hence there exist constants vectors C 1 , C 2 and C 3 such that
a 2 ( v ) = C 1 exp ( 1 + r 2 v ) + C 2 exp ( 1 + r 2 v ) + C 3
and using the relation r a 1 ( v ) = a 2 ( v ) a 2 ( v ) , we get
a 1 ( v ) = C 1 ( 1 + r 2 1 r ) exp ( 1 + r 2 v ) C 2 ( 1 + r 2 + 1 r ) exp ( 1 + r 2 v ) C 3 r .
By using an affine transformation which maps the basis C 1 , C 2 , C 3 to the standard basis, we have
F = ( C 1 ( 1 + r 2 1 r ) exp ( 1 + r 2 v ) C 2 ( 1 + r 2 + 1 r ) exp ( 1 + r 2 v ) C 3 r ) exp ( u ) + C 1 exp ( 1 + r 2 v ) + C 2 exp ( 1 + r 2 v ) + C 3
where C 1 = ( 1 , 0 , 0 ) , C 2 = ( 0 , 1 , 0 ) and C 3 = ( 0 , 0 , 1 ) .
We have proved Theorem 2.

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